My guess from the question an expectation of some formal group. Such groups exist. Better yet is prefiguration.
Build community in your neighborhood by getting to know your neighbors and contributing your skills to meet common goals. People, being social animals, work together to meet their needs. That is resistance.
Look out for your neighborhoods safety. Some ideas for doing that include: securing a water source, learning to raise food, learning basic repair of equipment, working on cardio, learning grappling/striking or joining a gun club. Be a neighbor with skills.
Lastly, never trust an organization with a heirarchy of leaders. Said leaders will eventually need to lynched. Joining the Marxist-Leninist book club is about as productive as Bible study.
Why on Earth would you advocate for lynching any and all leaders? If someone is elected, and helps guide the people to a better future through correct practice, then that’s a good thing, not the grounds for execution.
Right now I think it’s more just a collective of individual action, not so much a group of people that meet up. It’s also near impossible with how monitored everything is these days. Be careful where and how to talk about this stuff tho. Anything that has a speaker has the potential to listen, even if it’s “turned off”.
Go out. Join the chorus. Channel bartleby the scrivener. Where im at people are regular hanging around ice centers and ready to film what they can. Tell them they are not wanted here. Chant with them. Play with them. I bring cards and have considered a frisbee. Be out and occupy your space. This is where you live. Its yours and your neighbors. Make that clear.
What resistance? It seems to me that there is not one big organised resistance that is taking members.
Find a local event and network but be careful about it. The US had that “no kings” thing early in the summer (or before?). That was just a bunch of people against tyranny. No real organisation to it. So you’d go to something like that and just talk to people.
It helps if you have an anonymous way to chat. Something like Signal or Matrix or one of the others. Even Telegram would be better than using something public or corporate-backed, like SMS for the former or WhatsApp for the latter. But be careful with Telegram, read up on it, it’s not a solid recommendation but it’s better than nothing. Fortunately there are alternatives. Even if the other person isn’t tech savvy — you probably are by being on Lemmy. So, show them the way.
Occasionally contact them through anonymous chat, just see how they’re doing, and discuss future plans.
Also, aside from demonstrations, places where like minded people meet. For the authoritarians and conservatives, that’s church, the local BBQ spot, and other, more obvious groups. I feel like they feel they can operate more openly since the US president is one of them. Used to be, these guys wore masks and were hidden, joining them wasn’t about finding them, they’d find you, that kind of thing. Nowadays it’s all out in the open. But I think liberals and progressives have meeting places, too. In response to church, for example, you should know that The Satanic Temple is not about devil worship, they’re about resisting Christian imperialism. They’re the ones fighting churches trying to get the Ten Commandments posted in every classroom. I’m religiously neutral, so they do not interest me, but they’re certainly an option. For the anti-theist/“hard atheist,” they’re a good option.
No, don’t use Telegram. Chats aren’t end to end encrypted by default, you have to specifically request a secret conversation. It’s also not possible to encrypt group chats on telegram. Matrix, signal, session, simplex, and many others are much better.
Yeah, I know about Telegram’s limitations. Been using it for ages, just to chat with my wife since she uses Android and I’m on an iPhone, and I don’t do social media. It was the best way for us to message back and forth and we haven’t moved off of it.
I have Matrix, Signal, and Session as well. Nobody chats me up on them but I keep them as options because why not? My phone has 512GB. Most is music and video. Apps are nothing to me.
there is not one big organised resistance that is taking members
The biggest is DSA
When you find out, let us know.
Pee on your shoes.
We will contact you.
Done. Am now resisting arrest in the Wendy’s diner.
A member of the resistance has contacted me, thank you !
That’s the cool part… There is no “resistance” …that’s just something made up to profit off terrorizing people.
Nice try, fed.
Or mossad
serious answer: start by reading theory and knowing how “the resistance” works at all.
once you get a grip of ohm’s law, resistance is a breeze
I groaned, but that’s a good one lol
Stop touching the plug, Cowbee. I fear this is above your pay grade.
Here’s my Marxist-Leninist reading list if you want a place to start!
Thank you!
That’s exactly what I wanted.
No problem! Feel free to give me any feedback you may have if you decide to follow it!
“I want to help”
“Read several books first”.
Are you aware of how disgusting and classist it sounds?
how is reading a book classist for you? you can read. (and its free). the introductory stuff is mostly easy to read too.
you can join a leftist org directly and they will teach you if you prefer it that way. that’s probably how most people start.
most working class people cannot read well, let alone theory, have no material time to read, or if, they do, they don’t have the mental energy or continuity to get to the end of it, grapple alone on how to turn that into action and find a path for themselves. It’s very individualistic, good for the privileged who organize out of aspiration rather than out of necessity. Any serious org, to the people coming to offer help, should answer: “this is John, he will teach you how to do X and Y, and why this is important. Get to work”. Anything else is designed for an intellectual, individualistic minority that never gets shit done.
that’s exactly why others are here to talk to and explain it to people.
if one prefers other ways of absorbing information there’s a variety of ways you can learn politics, from audiobooks to youtube to finding them irl as i mentioned.
books are just the better more accurate and detailed source imo.
the thing people do need is wanting to learn. which I assume is what OP wants.
You need both theory and practice together. Practice sharpens theory, theory guides practice. You don’t have to be a grandmaster Marxist-Leninist with decades of theory under your belt to do good work. A large part of organizing involves training and educating comrades, for example, you even hint at it. Many orgs require a protracted training period before even being a full member, such as PSL or FRSO.
What’s classist would be shutting out the working class from theory, keeping it purely for the vanguard. Many existing communist orgs have run into this problem, and resolved it in various ways. Theory is for the working class, not for a privledged few, so the good vanguards have managed to make theory approachable and digestible.
No problem with that. My problem is with people who expect to start from theory as if that it’s a relatable and normal thing to do.
I’d say it’s definitely a “normal” thing to do. A lot of people don’t understand the importance of organizing until they’ve read a bit of theory, and saying they were wrong to do so, or framing them as privledged, isn’t the right path. There are two “wrong” camps, those who only read theory, and those who only do practice, though the practice camp is less incorrect. The correct group is the group that tries to balance both.
For anyone wanting a good place to start, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list! Under a bit of revision right now, but still fully usable!
oooo you even got jones manoel’s scolding of western marxists for orientalism in there
What’s that?
Yep! Western Marxism needs to be correctly addressed right off the rip, or else the chance of those going through the list ending up as social chauvanists increases. Manoel says it best!
I know guys, let’s like all form a resistance group and we’ll all meet downtown on Thursday at 6 o’clock. That way we’re all done with work and everything and we’ll have a big fucking meeting. Like every resister, all over the country, we’re all gonna meet downtown.
Think about it. There will be too many of us for the cops to do anything about it.
Like, even though they’ll know where we are and when we’re gonna be there, it’ll be all of us versus only however many of them can actually show up.
Want to help Terrence and Philip?
Sneak out after you get tucked into bed tonight and meet at Carl’s Warehouse.
Punch and pie.
allegedly
Join an org, if you’re a fed the good ones will filter you out.
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Your number one step is privacy. Privacy is the foundation of freedom; it “protects the right to be left alone”.
If you’re a beginner, Naomi Brockwell’s videos have very good tips. If you’re not a beginner, read Michael Bazzell’s book Extreme Privacy. Read it in full and decide the level of privacy you want (you likely will not need every single one of his tips).
lol, there’s no privacy in a fascist State because the state doesn’t feel compelled to respect the law and doesn’t recognize fundamental rights. Nobody is going to leave you alone. Get real.
Encryption requires no respect from the State
yeah, that’s a microscopic element of privacy in a situation where the state can come and kill you with no accountability. You still have a body, you still need to inhabit a space, eat food and exist in the world. Encryption won’t help you with that.
Also US law mandates back doors
No, the state can’t just do that. They could do it to any one person, but not to everyone. Consider this hypothetical: the state wants to kill 100 people. If everyone is outside, this job becomes easy. If everyone is in their homes, this job becomes harder. Why? Because breaking down doors, moving equipment, etc. costs money. And government agencies don’t have all the money in the world! They can’t:
- Go after every single person who uses cash
- Go after everyone who uses a vpn
- Go after everyone who uses encrypted messaging
- Go after everyone who attends a protest and who wears a mask and puts their phone in a faraday bag.
Privacy works best in a larger group. Telling people privacy is dead actually hurts you more than telling people that there are indeed effective steps you can take to protect yourself.
This is exactly what happens under fascism way before digitalization. Do you think they care if they make mistakes? They round up and jail random people if they are not sure. You really should read how fascism played out in Italy, Germany or Chile because you seem dangerously misguided
Eat more rubber and glass.
